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HR Alert: FTC’s Continued Enforcement Against No-Hire Agreements

Written by Lisa Coppola on January 30, 2026. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

Last month, the Federal Trade Commission issued a press release detailing its latest enforcement action against businesses it says are engaging in anti-competitive practices. More recently, the FTC directed its attention towards...

HR Alert: The Future of Non-Compete Clauses

Written by Lisa Coppola on March 31, 2025. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

As discussed previously, in May 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized a regulation that would ban non-compete clauses for any employee who isn’t a senior executive. Later, in August 2024, the proposed FTC...

HR Alert: Non-Competes Live On. . . For Now

Written by Lisa Coppola on August 21, 2024. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

The Texas court we wrote about here has now ruled. Its ruling comes as no surprise to those of us who’ve been watching. The ruling: the FTC’s ban on non-competes is blocked. We know this final rule was scheduled...

HR Alert: New York’s proposed ban of non-compete agreements – what does it mean?

Written by Lisa Coppola on July 20, 2023. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

The New York Assembly recently passed a bill to entirely ban the use of non-compete agreements. The bill seemingly was introduced in response to the FTC’s proposed rule regarding non-compete agreements that was released in...

HR Alert: Proposed FTC Rule Prohibits Non-Competes

Written by Lisa Coppola on January 6, 2023. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Health Care.

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) made a splash yesterday, January 5, 2023, when it announced proposed rulemaking to eviscerate non-compete clauses in business. A non-compete clause is an agreement between a business and...

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